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Okay guys I& #39;ve got an annoyed thread about changes of media ownership and not owning your own work or how it is displayed online.
I worked for a place called Fusion that was owned by Univision. Univision later bought Gizmodo Media Group, merged it w/Fusion & migrated all of our http://fusion.net"> http://fusion.net stories over to http://Splinternews.com"> http://Splinternews.com . Which was painful because that url & it erased views stories had.
Splinter went on to become a quite good political commentary site with a very strange archive of non-political stories like mine. But then Gizmodo Media Group got bought by a private equity firm which shuttered Splinter and laid off its staff.
Now, for some reason, all the images have been taken down from Splinter& #39;s archives and replaced with the message, "This image was removed due to legal reasons." I asked current lawyer at what is now G/O Media why. Reply: "Splinter is no longer an entity." What ever that means.
So now, as I cover the failures of facial recognition, I wanted to link to a (funny) story I wrote years ago about my doppelgänger tracking me down on the internet (without the benefit of face recognition tech), but the story kind of sucks without visuals. https://splinternews.com/how-my-doppelganger-used-the-internet-to-find-and-befri-1793848163">https://splinternews.com/how-my-do...
:/ So I encourage all you journalists, particularly at precarious publications, to archive your work. Luckily, @xor was a wonderful resource on this for me.
Thank goodness for orgs dedicated to preserving digital archives: https://archive.is/l5iOV ">https://archive.is/l5iOV&quo...
